Handyman Connection of Woodstock
The problem
A multi-trade home services franchise gets calls all day. Ryan was triaging leads off his cell while his estimators were in the field. Missed calls, voicemail tag, lost jobs.
What Forge built
"Alexis," a custom AI receptionist tuned for handyman intake. Live on a dedicated number with custom voice, custom triage rules, and a tenant dashboard at handyman.forgedev.studio. Stripe billing in dry-run, ready to flip live.
Stack
Vapi + Claude Sonnet 4.5 (prompt cached) + Deepgram Nova-2 + Vapi Clara voice, behind a multi-tenant Cloud Functions backend. Per-minute cost engineered to stay under $0.15 to protect margin on a $500/2000 plan.